Does this make my butt look endangered? A triptych of hand-painted models depict a lion's head on London's Carnaby Street to promote the London Zoo's Lions400 campaign, an effort to save the Asian lion.

Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis, Associated Press

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A massive sandstorm, accompanied by record
winds, engulfs the northeastern section of Tehran. The storm was blamed for at least four deaths, as well as power outages, damaged buildings and widespread transit disruption.

Seventy years after Operation Overlord: On Vierville-sur-Mer beach, one of the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy, a man wearing the uniform of a U.S. soldier sits for a portrait photo. June 6 is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Photo: Joel Saget, AFP/Getty Images

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A makeshift house burns in Lwandle, an impoverished area about 25 miles from Cape Town, as government workers evict squatters from privately owned land earmarked for a highway construction project. Some residents set fire to their homes rather than let workers tear them down.

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After the deluge: A Sri Lankan family wades through floodwaters in Matugama following heavy monsoon rains that wreaked havoc in the
western, southern and central regions of the island. At least 18 people were killed.

Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi, AFP/Getty Images

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How dare you give me a yellow card?! A sand sculpture on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro portrays an angry trio - Neymar of Brazil, Lionel Messi of Argentina and Cristiano Ronaldo (sans shirt) of Portugal.

Photo: Hassan Ammar, Associated Press

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In Beijing, you need a permit for everything: An elderly Chinese man flexes as he performs a martial
arts routine on the street in Beijing. Police moved the man along after a few minutes because he didn't
have a permit for working out.

Photo: Kevin Frayer, Getty Images

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If the heat's getting to you in Yangon, prop your umbrella between a pair of well-manicured shrubberies and climb under it with all your friends.

Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe, Associated Press

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Piano sand bar: This grand piano mysteriously appeared last week on a sliver of beach underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Though badly damaged, the Mason & Hamlin piano has become an impromptu tourist draw, drawing dozens each day to test out its keys.

Bubble trap: A large soap bubble created by a street performer lands on tourists in Seoul.

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Angel's walking days are over: Robert Crews pushes 18-year-old Angel and Patches the puppy down Cassat Avenue in Jacksonville, Fla. Crews says he chauffeurs Angel because she can no longer go for walks due to her bad hips. Patches could trot alongside them, but he prefers to ride as well.

Fruity fashion: A supporter of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement dons a headdress of oranges as she attends a rally in Nairobi welcoming Odinga back to the country. Tens of thousands greeted Odinga, who narrowly lost the last election to current President Uhuru Kenyatta and was returning following a three-month sabbatical in the United States.

Switched sides? An armed pro-Russian militant in a shirt bearing an emblem of a former Ukrainian special forces
police unit sits behind a camouflage netting while guarding a checkpoint on the main highway linking
the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Dragon fire: A British Lynx Mk8 helicopter fires all 60 of its flares at once over the destroyer HMS Dragon during war games off Portsmouth, England. The picture won a prize in the Royal Navy's photographic awards.